Fogarty International Center

The global distribution and burden of dengue

The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

Outbreak to pandemic In response to global dispersion of severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), quarantine measures have been implemented around the world...

Global antibiotic consumption 2000 to 2010: an analysis of national pharmaceutical sales data

Refining the Global Spatial Limits of Dengue Virus Transmission by Evidence-Based Consensus

The map produced here provides a list of 128 countries for which there is good evidence of dengue occurrence, including 36 countries that have previously been classified as deng...

BEAGLE: An Application Programming Interface and High-Performance Computing Library for Statistical Phylogenetics

Phylogenetic inference is fundamental to our understanding of most aspects of the origin and evolution of life, and in recent years, there has been a concentration of interest i...

Phylogeography Takes a Relaxed Random Walk in Continuous Space and Time

Research aimed at understanding the geographic context of evolutionary histories is burgeoning across biological disciplines. Recent endeavors attempt to interpret contemporaneo...

A Long Neglected World Malaria Map: Plasmodium vivax Endemicity in 2010

This detailed depiction of spatially varying endemicity is intended to contribute to a much-needed paradigm shift towards geographically stratified and evidence-based planning f...

The Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) of Diarrheal Disease in Infants and Young Children in Developing Countries: Epidemiologic and Clinical Methods of the Case/Control Study

When completed, GEMS will provide estimates of the incidence, etiology, and outcomes of MSD among infants and young children in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. This informati...

An analysis of efforts to scale up clean household energy for cooking around the world

Approximately 3 billion people, most of whom live in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, rely on solid fuels (i.e. wood, crop wastes, dung, charcoal) and kerosene for their cooking ...

Simultaneously reconstructing viral cross-species transmission history and identifying the underlying constraints

The factors that determine the origin and fate of cross-species transmission events remain unclear for the majority of human pathogens, despite being central for the development...